Cabbage News Network Week #127

[kmusser]

Monday 7/1

• Judge orders Border Patrol to allow doctors into detention facilities (source).
  
• Congress members tour migrant detention facilities (source).
  
• Implementation of HHS "conscience protection" rule delayed by lawsuit (source).
  
• DJT to give Kim Jong Un whatever he wants (source).
  
• DJT doesn't know what "busing" is (source).
  
• DJT reaches trade deal with China that doesn't really do anything other than lift the restrictions on Huawei (source).
  
• Saudi Arabia is buying up U.S. debt (source).

Tuesday 7/2

• Judge rules that indefinite detention of asylum seekers is illegal (source).
  
• More reports on detention facility conditions.
  
• Administration increasing enforcement of fines against illegal immigrants (source).
  
• House sues IRS over DJT's tax returns (source).
  
• U.S. economic expansion has been great for the ultra-rich, not so much for everybody else (source).
  
• Border Patrol to investigate anti-migrant Facebook group for Border Patrol employees (source).
  
• DJT and DC fighting over whether he can have tanks at his 4th of July rally (source, more on DJT's hijacking of DC's 4th of July).
  

Wednesday 7/3

• DJT's military display for the 4th a go (source).
  
• Administration drops attempts to add citizenship question to Census, and then DJT denies dropping it (source).
  
• DJT accuses China and EU of currency manipulation (source).

Thursday 7/4

• DJT's 4th of July rally/military display includes flub about the revolutionary war army taking over airports (source).
  

Friday 7/5

Legislative update

• Legislation signed into law
  
  • Border appropriations bill https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr3401
    
  • 1 minor bill
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  • 4 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate - no new activity
  
  • 169 total pending bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House - no new activity
  
  • 61 total pending bills